Bushido: The Soul of Japan on Crown of Wild Olive: ““When I tell you,” he says in the _Crown of Wild Olive_, “that war is the foundation of all the arts, I mean also that it is the foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men.”
Bushido: The Soul of Japan on Theory of the Leisure Class: “Very fitly does Mr. Veblen, in his interesting book,[11] call decorum “a product and an exponent of the leisure-class life.” [Footnote 11: _Theory of the Leisure Class_, N.Y. 1899, p. 46.]”